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The lads is attending school nessans regular, sir, spelling beesknees with hathatansy and turning out tables by mudapplication. Allfor the books and never pegging smashers after Tom Bowe Glassarse or Timmy the Tosser. 'Tisraely the truth!
—Joyce, Finnegan's Wake
Tisreally the truth
Tisrarely the truth...
Turning out tables...

Since I am busy reviewing a book-I-have-actually-read, I have been negligent of my series of reviews of books-I-haven't-read-yet. Much more time consuming...
There is only one thing to do, and that is start another half-baked tradition. Call it, "Quotes Out of Context."
All too often, in the act of sharing a striking quote, we find—masked …

That was refreshing!
As you know, we academics are inordinately fond of wedging ourselves into confined spaces.
At Yale, the students will see how many of their number they can enclose in a phone booth. At Harvard, a broom closet.
I hope I did not spill my tea...
—Professor G. H. Dorr, in The Ladykillers
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Education— To applaud, to exalt revolt in all its forms, and more particularly that of child against its own family;...to pride oneself on having personally broken some shackles.... Enough of this complicity in degradation which welds the generations, one with another; enough of tacit understandings, of shameful solutions, of a rendezvous fixed for ultimate ruination. …

Here's an interesting video by the After Ed TV team. It's interesting to listen to the language being used. I wonder, also about the overall strategy of insertion. That is, the idea of a competition as being the wedge that allows this work and exploration to happen both within architecture firms and schools.
Is there …

The supreme irony would be if the real shift in education is not from public to charter schools, but that both could be eclipsed by what appears to be a drop in the bucket, the smallest possible unit of education: home-schooling. Representing, by its nature a fringe move in education, its marginal status hinges less …